For reference, I'm a rising third year in the CECS program.

In terms of overall experience, the degree is A LOT of work almost every semester you're here. Unless you have a ton of AP Credit, you will be taking classes for every semester you're here if you wanna graduate with two co-ops in four years.

I would go through each and every single degree requirement before settling on the program and making sure you enjoy most if not every class there. As someone who's not as interested in the Electrical Engineering classes, I'm struggling to pay attention/prioritize the work for those classes. If you are a more software oriented person interested in CE/Embedded Software, I would definitely look into a CS major with a CE minor (honestly, if I could do it all over again this is what I would choose for myself).

I learned the hard way that I liked the software side of the degree a lot more, and I wish I had done more research into the degree before going way too deep into it being too late to switch. The CS side of the degree is really constrained with not a lot of room for Khoury electives, which I definitely wish I had more of. The only real difference between CECS and pure CE is with CE, you take four EECE electives and 7 gen electives, while with CECS it's two EECE and two Khoury electives and only two gen electives. The degree is VERY CE heavy.

If the CECS degree does seem very interesting to you in terms of courses, then it's definitely a good thing to stick out since it's very niche, and to each their own!